Undefeated Page #3

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a dad in the home.

Loved my mama to death,

but she had a new man,

you know, every month.

Some dude was

sleeping on the couch.

And I walked by him

as I went to school.

And I could have went to school,

I could have stayed at home.

It really wasn't like anybody

forced me to do anything.

But it's not where you start.

It's what... what is it?

It's where you finish.

Thanks for having me.

And I appreciate being here.

Release, Julius!

Stop!

Stop, back, back,

back, back, back.

Get on the ball.

This is so easy, y'all.

You block.

When you hear the thud,

you get in your lanes.

And you got to hustle

into your lanes.

But you don't go anywhere

until you hear the thud.

Do you hear me?

When you look

around this program...

Not a lot of equipment. They pretty

much had to do with what they have.

You know, they have

a nice school here at Manassas,

a brand new school,

but unfortunately

they got that built and

didn't get the rest of

the school built, which

is the athletic part of it.

All right, let's go.

O.C., you have to block first.

There was nobody over there!

Damn it...

The city schools really are...

They play on a different level

in terms of support and

in terms of funding...

When you address that thing,

is the minute it hits his right hand.

That's the landscape that

we have in athletics today.

It's kind of like America,

the haves and have-nots.

Get it in there.

Oh, my God, Kevin.

The City of Memphis

school system

is always just way underfunded.

There's just no money, and if

you don't have a booster club,

the only other way

to pay for the program

is to play what

they call pay games.

We would bus out to places

like Ripley, Haywood,

Milan, Westview...

We're talking big, powerful

3 and 4A football teams.

They'd beat our ass,

they give us a check

and send us back on our way.

And those five or six games would

raise 15-20 thousand dollars

and that's what would

fund the football program.

The problem is, by the time

you got to your district games.

Your 19 kids were beat up,

and pretty much accepted

that they were horrible

and couldn't win any games.

Well, Jim and I started

Manrise for the soul purpose

of raising money to give to

Manassas like a booster club.

It's a program now,

it's not having to go

up the road to play these

huge schools that are going to

destroy us, and an opportunity

to tell kids in the hallway,

"Come play football."

Dickens?

You weren't in practice

yesterday were you?

- No.

- Huh?

- Yes, sir?

- You weren't there Monday, were you?

- No.

- You going to be there today?

- Yes, sir.

- Get your grades right.

You need to be on

the football field!

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